Monash University

Bachelor of Physiotherapy (Honours)

Undergraduate

Details

University Location Melbourne, Victoria
City Population 5.3 million
Student Population 86,000
Int'l Student Population 30,000
Main Campus Clayton
Program Campus Peninsula
Program Duration 4 years
Estimated Annual Tuition AUD$60,600 (2025 fees; subject to increase)
Semester Intake February
Next Available Intake 2025
Application Deadline Rolling admissions*

Overview

The Department of Physiotherapy at Monash University prides itself on research-informed teaching that will challenge and encourage you. Monash aims to advance health and wellness through best practice in education and research in an environment that is progressive and supportive for both educators and students.

Located at the Peninsula campus (approximately 40 km southeast of Melbourne), the Bachelor of Physiotherapy (Honours) gives you high-quality academic education, intensive training in relevant clinical environments, and the chance to study with expert physiotherapists and leading researchers.

You’ll acquire the knowledge and skills you need to practice as a physiotherapist, using exercise, movement analysis, manual therapy and specialist techniques to restore, improve and promote health.

Program

The focus of the early part of the the Bachelor of Physiotherapy (Honours) is on the conditions for which people typically seek physiotherapy. You’ll study biomedical and behavioural sciences ranging over anatomy, biomechanics, kinesiology, pathology, pharmacology, physiology, psychology, radiology, and sociology. In doing so, you’ll lay the foundations for physiotherapy practice and research, using a problem-based and patient-centred approach to learning.

In the later years you move to the clinical setting, where your knowledge and skills are put to practice in the delivery of physiotherapy services under the supervision of experienced physiotherapists. This clinical education may occur in a diversity of settings, including metropolitan and rural health services.

Your skills will be developed through small-group learning, with some time each semester spent working with students enrolled in other health-science courses (e.g., occupational therapy, nursing, paramedic practice, medical imaging, nutrition and dietetics, social work) enabling you to experience interdisciplinary service delivery and inter-professional education.

You will learn from highly trained and experienced physiotherapists who are skilled in education and research, and gain exposure to areas in which you could later specialise, such as cardiorespiratory, gerontology, pediatrics, neurology or musculoskeletal care.

The course develops through 5 themes that combine to underpin physiotherapy practice:

1. Personal and professional development
2. Population society and health
3. Fundamental knowledge for the health sciences
4. Applied practice
5. Research

Admission Requirements

Completed high school diploma
You must have a high school diploma with Grade 12 English and any 2 of final-year chemistry, biology, mathematical methods, physics or further mathematics. Minimums shown by province. Please contact OzTREKK for details.

  • Ontario = 89%
  • British Columbia = 84%

Admission Timeline

*Offers are made throughout the year based on academic merit and subject to availability in the program. You are encouraged to apply as early as possible.